Question

People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people
had plenty of money, they would be happy and get more cut of life. As a rule there is more genuine
satisfaction in life and more is obtained from life in the humble cottage of the poor man in the
palace of rich man, who are altended by servants and governesses at a later age. At the sametime I am glad to think they do not know what they have missed. It is because I know how sweet

and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is, how free from perplexing care and social
envies and jealousies, how loving and united the members are in the common interest of supporting
the family that I sympathise with the rich man's boy and congratulate the poor man's son. It is for these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many strong eminent self-reliant men have
always sprung. If you read the list of the "Immortals who were not born to die" you will find that
most of them have been poor.

1. Tick the correct alternatives : (5x1=5)

1. Poverty is a great evil to poor men / rich men / common men / great men.

2. More genuine satisfaction is in the abode of a rich man / poor man / great man / Nature.
3. Here the poverty is considered to be dishonest / devil / happy / honest.

4. The poet is happy for the boy of a rich man / poor man / jealous man / servant.

5. The poor people do not know what the have earned / done / missed / built in life.

B. Answer the followings : (5x2=10) 1. What does a common man believe?

2. What are the poor men free from?

3. Why does the author congratulate the poor man's son?

4. "Immortals who were not born to die" – Explain.

5. Bring out the notion of the author about poverty.​

Answer 1

Answer:

poor man

poor man

poor man